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I don’t know about anyone else, but sometimes I find it really hard to match colours. Or, once I’ve chosen colours, I find it hard to then arrange them in a nice way. I find it particularly hard to arrange things so they look random. For example, I was trying to lay out my granny squares for my big crochet blanket but was having trouble. I solve this by using a random number generator, giving each pile of the same colours a number, and then putting them in that order. A couple looked out of place, so I swapped them round, but overall it made the job much easier.

Here is a roundup of tools that I’ve found that make creating colour schemes or arranging colours a much simpler task. I use them for all sorts of crafting this as well as web design, so they’re useful for many different purposes. Hopefully you’ll find them useful too.

Colour Schemes

Color Scheme Designer – Allows you a lot of control over colour schemes, and as well as main colours gives you matching shades

Design Seeds – Uses inspirational pictures, and takes the main colours from them

This wasn’t what I was intending for my first proper post, however as soon as I clicked on the advert, I thought ‘that’s genius!’

I was browsing the new edition of Knitty and an interesting advert caught my eye. It was like a knitting chart, but better. I clicked on the ad and it took me to Stitch Maps. Put simply, they take a chart, and they make it better. You can see exactly the pattern the chart will produce and how the rows connect to each other. It’s one of those ideas where you think ‘that’s amazing, why didn’t I think of that!’. So check it out. What do you think?